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Show MURDER OF YOUTH REMAINS MYSTERY Chicago Police Unable to Locate Slayer Slay-er of Bennle Halstein; Suspects Exonerated. CHICAGO, Aug. . 2. Withdrawal of identification of the blood stained nail punch found under tho nude body of Bennie Hoktein, 14 years old, today left tne police without a definite clow to the murder of- the boy. Lee White, a negro paving gang worker, arrested yesterday in Gar', Ind., as the person last seen with the punch, was relieved of that suspicion this afternoon by Mrs. Ella Wright, a ngress, who had identified the punch as one which belonged be-longed to her huBband, a carpenter, and which sho had lent to Whito. White was a boarder at the Wright home nntil about the day of the murder of the oy whose body was found hidden in shrubbery in Morgan park, a suburb. Mrs. Wright found her husband's nail punch m a box of nails late today,' and hastened to the police to withdraw her identification of the one found with the body. White told a connected story of his movements He will be hold while it in investigated. Suspicion against Paul Pakin, a Turkish paving gang worker ?A8Aea h,afc had not fled tho fiv U drwii that coming, com-ing, to him, but had drawn his pav after giving notice that ho was going to |